The Democrats are so desperate to regain lost political ground that they are driven to staging political stunts such as the latest comedy: snail-mailing harmless bombs to themselves hoping for voter sympathy and support in the mid-term elections. They will certainly attract the world’s attention to themselves but the voters’ sneering rejection at the polling […]

Journalists and individuals who are critical of those in power tend to be the primary targets of both state and other groups with resources and the means because threats and attacks are intended to scare them, if not stop them altogether in their tracks.

Today’s leaders have critics and supporters, detractors and loyalists. The rich still get richer and the poor not just poorer but have grown in numbers. Thanks to a sustained growth in population and growing dollar remittances from OFWs, the government is able to use percentages to be able to show percentile improvements in economic indicators. […]

Labor has called on the Turnbull Government to reverse its unfair changes to Assurance of Support requirements. These unfair changes were recently introduced in the dead of night, without any community consultation.

If someone said we should sack more than 2,000 nurses a year from our public hospitals, I’d tell them they’re dreaming. Yet that’s what Malcolm Turnbull is essentially doing to our public hospitals. He’s cutting the equivalent of 2000 nurses a year from 2017-2019.

Du30 is truly a danger to the country’s fragile democracy, encouraging wholesale violations of human and civil rights, the killings of suspected drug users or pushers being the most flagrant example; threatening impeachment of those officials who criticize him. He seems to really get infuriated when the critic is a woman. He allowed the burial […]

I am not embarrassed to say that I cried in a restaurant in Makati where I was having breakfast when I saw the Philippine Daily Inquirer Sunday edition with that front page photo [of a present day Pieta]. I have not been so moved by a photo in years. I could see the love, anguish, […]

I refer to the article written by Aida Morden in your July issue regarding alleged issues within SAFSI (Sydney Australian Filipino Seniors Inc). Ms. Morden has chosen to label me “confused” and “ill-advised” for my refusal to meet with her.